“The house of German-American Dr. Giering is now a private residence. Although Dr. Anna Giering and her son were Baltimore-based physicians, they practiced throughout the region. Dr. Anna specialized in “diseases of women only”.
The land was owned by Gottlieb Heckel, a cobbler from Gay Street, who purchased it in the late nineteenth century. He built a log cabin in the vicinity of Parkside Drive and Prior Avenues for himself and the nearby stone house for Dr. Giering. This fieldstone house is five bays wide, with the gable end facing Parkside Drive. It features a central arched entrance and semi-circular attic window. The size of the
house and native materials reflect a lone outpost in a wooded area, rather than the community
oriented domestic architecture that predominates in the district. The house is listed as a landmark by the State of Maryland.”
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